Sep 3, 1919
Parties, my fellow citizens, are intended to embody in action different policies of government.
Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in Virginia and raised in Georgia before moving to New Jersey, where he became a prominent political figure. Wilson was a key leader of the Progressive Movement, advocating for reforms such as antitrust legislation and the establishment of the Federal Reserve System. His presidency is also noted for significant events such as the United States' involvement in World War I and his efforts to promote the League of Nations, an international organization aimed at preventing future conflicts.
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Sep 3, 1919
It is for the first time in the history of international transactions an act of systematic justice and not an act of grabbing and seizing.
Sep 3, 1919
If this covenant accomplished little more than the abolition of private arrangements between great powers, it would have gone far toward stabilizing the peace of the world
Sep 3, 1919
Under the covenant of the league of nations we can mind other peoples' business,
Sep 3, 1919
We engage in the first sentence of Article X to respect and preserve from external aggression the territorial integrity and the existing political independence not only of the other member States, but of all States.
Sep 3, 1919
Shall we or shall we not sustain the first great act of international justice?
Sep 3, 1919
I have not come here to make a speech in the ordinary sense of that term.
Sep 3, 1919
My errand upon this journey is not to argue these matters, but to recall you to the real issues which are involved.
Sep 3, 1919
This treaty contains among other things a Magna Charta of labor—a thing unheard of until this interesting year of grace.
Sep 3, 1919
The only people I owe any report to are you and the other citizens of the United States.
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